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Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data

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dc.creator L'Horty, Yannick
dc.creator Rault, Christophe
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:42Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:42Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20104
dc.identifier ppn:368843602
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20104
dc.description This paper examines the set of interdependences between the formation of wages, prices and the minimum wage (SMIC) through a vectorial error correction model estimated on French quarterly macroeconomic data covering the 1970-1/1999-4 period. Two periods are distinguished: the period of inflation rise from 1970 to 1981, which coincides with an important squeeze of the wage range, measured by the ratio of the minimum wage to the hourly wage rate; the period of disinflation since 1981, that has been concomitant with a stability of wage inequalities. Disinflation has hardly benefited the evolution of the SMIC which has always profited by price rises, in real and relative terms, which have become less strong. This evolution doesn?t benefit any more of wage rises, when the interdependences between variables are taken into account. The SMIC seems however to have gained in efficiency as an instrument of wage disparity reduction. Its rises are finally more persistent in real terms and relatively to the other salaries and have always as little inflationary impact on wages as on prices.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 861
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J38
dc.subject J31
dc.subject E31
dc.subject C32
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject wage formation
dc.subject minimum wage
dc.subject error correction model
dc.subject cointegration
dc.subject impulse analysis
dc.subject Lohnbildung
dc.subject Lohn
dc.subject Inflation
dc.subject Mindestlohn
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Frankreich
dc.title Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1970-1994


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